Just give me KDE on a mobile device!!!

Unfortunately I need to look for a replacement for my Jolla phone, so when I read this announcement I thought this is a wonderful news. But I have quite stomach with their website. For example I didn't knew that it is still possible to have newsletter registration without double-opt-in.

We are proud to announce our community collaboration with KDE and Plasma Mobile

Necuno Solutions and KDE collaborate to bring Plasma Mobile to the Necuno Mobile, a truly open source hardware platform

I really hope there will be a mobile device with KDE soon. I am waiting for this for so long already. The Spark/Vivaldi tablet was just amazing and the idea of KDE on mobile device really got me the first time I heard about it. It must have been at CeBIT 2012 where I hold this wonderful small red KDE tablet in my hand and I was really impressed. It felt so common and perfect match. Was a really sad disappointment to see this project fail.From my experiences in the last 6 years I am quite reserved about Necuno Solutions so far. There is really not much information yet and I think the best guess at the moment is still with Purism Librem 5. But I still have the impression KDE is not more than a 2nd class citizen. They have more than enough to do, to get one stack ready at all at the moment.

Eee

It was white, not much bigger than my hands held side by side, weighed about as much as a bottle of wine, and it came in a shiny, faux-leather case. It was the $199 Asus Eee 901, and I couldn't believe that a computer could be that powerful, that light and that much fun.This is the story of the brief, shining history of the Asus Eee, the first netbook—a small, cheap and mostly well-made laptop that dominated the computer industry for two or three years about a decade go. It's not so much that the Eee was ahead of its time, which wasn't that difficult in an industry then dominated by pricey and bulky laptops that didn't always have a hard drive and by desktop design hadn't evolved much past the first IBM 8086 box.

Our mission is to give pupils from year 3 onwards a playful approach to the digital world.

With Calliope mini you have countless creative options right at your fingertip. You want to build a robot or transmit messages? With just a few clicks you can create a program for the microprocessor and make things move.

Besides 25 red plus one RGB LED and two programmable buttons the board contains a combined position sensor with motion sensor and compass as well as a bluetooth module that allows the Calliope mini to communicate with other devices. The board can't only be programmed with your computer: you can use an app to transfer apps you created yourself to your mini computer.

Librem 5, the phone that focuses on security by design and privacy protection by default. Running Free/Libre and Open Source software and a GNU+Linux Operating System designed to create an open development utopia, rather than the walled gardens from all other phone providers.

A fully standards-based freedom-oriented system, based on Debian and many other upstream projects, has never been done before–we will be the first to seriously attempt this.

KDE develops Plasma Mobile, a free, open and full-featured graphical environment for mobile devices. Plasma Mobile has been tested on several off-the-shelf devices. However, most smartphones include hardware that requires proprietary software to work. This clashes with KDE’s principles of freedom and openness. It also makes building difficult, since many details of the hardware are kept secret, preventing complete access to all the components.

building DC power grid

Hello and welcome to our information site. We are designing and building an alternative power network for the upcoming big Dutch hacker event SHA2017.

The idea of building a DC power grid to experiment with came to us at CCCamp 2015. We asked around and many people of the community would like to have an opportunity to share their surplus of solar / wind or other eco-friendly power during hacker events. Some people like the idea they can use “green” power on events, even if they have to modify some systems for it or adapt to using less power. Others are interested to study the dynamics of a DC system or would like to figure out how to send data over a DC grid. We would like to satisfy all of those people by building a transparent DC grid.

KDE Slimbook

Today KDE is proud to announce the immediate availability of the KDE Slimbook, a KDE-branded laptop that comes pre-installed with Plasma and KDE Applications (running on Linux) and is assured to work with our software as smoothly as possible.The KDE Slimbook allows KDE to offer our users a laptop which has been tested directly by KDE developers, on the exact same hardware and software configuration that the users get, and where any potential hardware-related issues have already been ironed out before a new version of our software is shipped to them. This gives our users the best possible way to experience our software, as well as increasing our reach: The easier it is to get our software into users' hands, the more it will be used.Furthermore, the KDE Slimbook, together with KDE neon, offers us a unique opportunity to isolate and fix issues that users have with our software. When something in Plasma, a KDE Application or some software using a KDE Framework does not work as intended for a user, there are at least three layers that can cause the problem: The KDE software itself The operating system The hardware or its driversOf course KDE always tries to reduce bugs in our software as much as possible. Problems can occur in any of the aforementioned layers, however, and often times it is difficult for us to pin-point exactly where things are going wrong. Last year, KDE neon joined the KDE community with the promise to give us control over the operating system layer. This does not mean we won't make our software available on other distributions or operating systems, of course, but it allows us to eliminate that layer as a possible source of a problem.This left us still with one layer we had zero control over, though: The hardware layer.Fast-forward to late last year, when the Spanish laptop retailer Slimbook approached KDE with the idea to offer KDE-branded laptops that come pre-installed with Plasma and KDE Applications. We were excited about the idea, and put our designers and developers to the task of creating a branding for such a device and making sure that KDE neon runs without any hardware-related issues on it.For now, the KDE Slimbook will always come pre-installed with KDE neon, but we are open to offering other distributions that come pre-installed with Plasma for customers to choose from.The KDE Slimbook is for people who love KDE software, regardless of whether or not they are active contributors to KDE.For more information, visit the KDE Slimbook website.

Openmoko retrospective

In 2006 I first visited Taiwan. The reason back then was Sean Moss-Pultz contacting me about a new Linux and Free Software based Phone that he wanted to do at FIC in Taiwan. This later became the Neo1973 and the Openmoko project and finally became part of both Free Software as well as smartphone history.Ten years later, it might be worth to share a bit of a retrospective.

Three years ago, you backed the first computer anyone can make. Today, tiny connected computers surround us – snapping, tracking, flashing, sensing. So we’re back, with an end-to-end creative system, to demystify and democratize them for all.How? Three new kits, a new way to code them. Simple steps, physical computing, and play.

Today we’ve got a new reason to celebrate: Conflict-free tungsten is now part of the Fairphone supply chain! With this achievement, Fairphone can finally announce that we set up traceable supply chains for all four internationally-recognized conflict minerals.

MOnSter

A new dis-integrated circuit project to make a complete, working transistor-scale replica of the classic MOS 6502 microprocessor.

How big is the MOnSter 6502 compared to the original 6502 die?The original device was 153 × 168 mils (3.9 × 4.3 mm) or an area of 16.6 square mm. Given that ours is 12 × 15 inches, that makes it about 7000 times actual size. How big would a 68000 microprocessor be at the scale of the MOnSter 6502?Also about 19 square feet (1.7 square meters).How big would a modern CPU be at this scale?The Apple A8X, found in the iPad Air 2, contains about 3 billion transistors. (This is comparable to the number of transistors in modern desktop computer CPUs as well.) At the scale of the MOnSter 6502, that would take about 885,000 square feet (82000 square meters) — an area about 940 ft (286 m) square.